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A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely… — Robert Louis Stevenson
If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward;… — Immanuel Kant
Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds… — Hermann Hesse
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware… — Diane Johnson
Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's… — Barry Hannah
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with… — Jorge Luis Borges
Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than the story. The… — Leonard Michaels
An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds… — H. L. Mencken
But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer to discover this,… — Bill Brandt
The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by… — William James
The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery… — Albert Einstein
We know at lot more now than the 'last time around the 1960s and 1970s - about how to work for smart schools... ' 'The… — David Perkins
Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it… — Arnold Schoenberg
If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne. — Rudyard Kipling
If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because… — William J. Brennan
Blessed is the man who gets the opportunity to devote his life to something bigger than himself and who finds himself surrounded by friends who… — Andy Stanley
Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gives a greater proof thereof, than that… — George Whitefield
Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds. — Richard Armour
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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